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From: Erik Naggum
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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 20:50:57 GMT
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* Jean-François Brouillet
| I didn't expect Naggum to stay silent at all. I wished he would; see
| the world of difference?
Do you even remember how I responded to your insane outburst of
uncontrolled rage? Shall I refresh your memory a little?
What an _interesting_ display of personality problems. Get help, OK?
Do you remember this? What was _your_ response? Do you need another
memory refresh? It was a new thread with subject "Nagging Naggum" in
which you proved that you are irrecovably _psychotic_. If you think you
will recover honorably from this episode, rest assured that I have a
rather long memory when it comes to asswipes like you. People who make
mistakes or believe something too strongly but who fix them or get
convinced of the rationality of the opposing view (without necessarily
agreeing with it), I forgive and forget, and the same seems to be true of
most other reasonably rational people. I think it is vitally important
that past mistakes not be used against people who have made a reasonable
effort to correct them. But those who stage massive attacks because they
are enraged by what they do not understand, have already shown such an
incredible lack of sound judgment that one must expect it to show up
again at some point and nobody should trust such a person to grow a brain.
People who think critically about the world they live in are full of
surprises, but since most of the hypotheses we come up with on our own
are wrong, just like you can extrapolate in any direction from a single
data point, it is important to expose one's ideas to the world. What
differentiates a rational and critical thinker from an irrational nutjob
is that the thinker seeks and embraces counter-information -- stuff that
can offer an alternative view or invalidate what one believes. Now, as
it turns out, viewing information one receives this way causes a lot of
waste of time because most of the people who have unusual information are
nutjobs who have not exposed _their_ ideas to others for their critical
comments or who have never sought any of the available counter-evidence
or ignored all that which floated their way. The argument you usually
hear from the nutjobs is that other people cannot deal with disagreement
-- because that is what makes _them_ the most queasy, and which they
think they cope with by trying not to disagree with others -- but the
problem is that most people do not deal well with challenges to their
_unstated_ beliefs.
| The only (huge) mistake of Naggum is his language. And probably the fact
| that he can't control his bile.
On the contrary, you and things like Israel Ray Thomas cannot control
your bile. I do control my bile very much, thank you. Dealing with
psychos like you requires intimate control over my own reactions. The
fact that I am measured and precise in how I exact my retribution is what
drives _you_ wild, is it not? The fact that I am _right_ about you is
what makes you erupt in even more flames. I think the only proper
reaction to an insane nutjob like yourself is to push you to and
optionally over the brink. There is a word for this: brinkmanship.
Take a look at how you erupted here. _That_ is evidence of your not even
being _able_ to control you bile.
| Write me a private email if you wish, but it is not my desire to add any
| more noise than strictly necessary to this NG.
You are still mistaken in what you believe in necessary.
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